Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) and his Republican opponent Chris Christie have come out with a dueling set of Web ads, touching on the health care debate and insurance company mandates — and whether any candidate favors letting women be denied mammograms.
Corzine came out with this Web ad two days ago, attacking Christie for favoring the legalization of mandate-free policies — that is, insurance companies wouldn’t be required by the state to cover certain needs — in order to make cheaper private policies available to those who would opt for them. The Corzine camp seized on this to say women would go without mammograms, after the state just passed a mammogram requirement a few years ago:
Christie has fired back with this hard-hitting Web ad called “Mom,” about his own mother’s fight against breast cancer:
Christie said he was prepared for tough attacks in this race: “But what I’m not gonna put up with is when Jon Corzine runs ad and puts out information that blatantly lies about something in my record that’s also very, very important to me personally.”
